Ugly appearance of GUI

[Juan Simón]

I have updated now to the last stable version (1.1.2) installed from your PPA (https://launchpad.net/~bit-team/+archive/ubuntu/stable) and the GUI appearance is very ugly (see screenshot).
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ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-18 (201 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: backintime-qt4 1.1.2~trusty [origin: LP-PPA-bit-team-stable]
PackageArchitecture: all
Tags: third-party-packages trusty
Uname: Linux 3.18.5-031805-i7 x86_64
UnreportableReason: Este no es un paquete oficial de Ubuntu. Desinstale cualquier paquete de terceros e inténtelo de nuevo.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers
_MarkForUpload: True

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

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[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

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[Germar (germar)]

Jepp. I know. It's only with root. Wasn't able to find out yet why this happens. But I'll work on it

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

Yes, but I think that, in a multi-user system, it uses the root user to do backups of all users and system files is the usual behaviour.
In previous versions this worked fine.

[Germar (germar)]

I wouldn't call it usual behaviour. I personally prefer to run user backups as each user so they can restore their own data by themselves without asking for root permission. But that's totally up to every ones own preferences.

In 1.1.0 I changed GUI to Qt4 and the ugly theme is caused by this. Like I said, I'll try to fix this soon.

[Robin Roth (robinro)]

The reason seems to be that the default qt4 config for root differs from those of ordinary users.
A workaround is to set the GTK+ theme by running
qtconfig-qt4
as root.

This sets the correct values in
/root/.config/Trolltech.conf

I also played around with deleting the config, but default settings get restored on the next start that don't contain a styles section.

[Robin Roth (robinro)]

It seems there is no obvious automatic solution. At least other programs are struggling with it as well:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unetbootin/+bug/638845

btw: In my opinion there are many legit reasons to run backintime as root. The place where I ran into this bug is a backup of /etc on one of my machines.

[Germar (germar)]

Thanks Robin for this infos. This does work. I'm sure there is a way to set style to GTK+ in BIT but didn't find out yet how this works. I'm working on it.

No doubt there are plenty good reasons to run BIT as root. I just wanted to share my personal point of view about multi-user backups.